The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
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"From one of Britain's most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary short stories that demonstrate what modern England has becomeIn The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display.Her classic wicked humor in each story--which range from a ghost story to a vampire story to near-memoir to mini-sagas of family and social fracture--brilliantly unsettles the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way. Mant
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Hilary Mantel's short story about the (ahistorical) assassination of Margaret Thatcher was almost banned in the UK. A contemporary story about the assassination of David Cameron would be unlikely to make it to the BBC. A contemporary movie about same would never be funded.
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